Captured pirates sentenced in Seychelles
July 2010 Pirates sentenced in Seychelles
WikiLeaks founder makes rare public appearance
WikiLeaks head steps out of the shadows By Richard Galant, CNN July 20, 2010 — Updated 1131 GMT (1931 HKT) Why the world needs Wikileaks STORY HIGHLIGHTS WikiLeaks.org founder Julian Assange makes rare public appearance He says the site has been overwhelmed by disclosures from whistle-blowers Assange said site has disclosed more classified documents than…
Facebook Lawyer `Unsure’ Whether Zuckerberg Signed 84% Ownership Contract
Play Video July 20 (Bloomberg) — Bloomberg’s Scarlet Fu reports on major newsmakers in today’s Movers & Shakers. (Source: Bloomberg) A lawyer for Facebook Inc. said she was “unsure” whether company founder Mark Zuckerberg signed a contract that purportedly entitles a New York man to 84 percent of the world’s biggest social-networking service. Paul Ceglia…
One-state debate explodes Zionist taboo myth
One-state debate Ma’an news Ma’an, July 20, 2010 A fascinating debate has entered Israel’s political mainstream on a once-taboo subject: the establishment of a single state as a resolution of the conflict, one in which Jews and Palestinians might potentially live as equal citizens. Surprisingly, those advocating such a solution are to be found chiefly…
Excerpt: COCAINE NATION
Introduction In March 2008, the United Nations’ World Drug Report confirmed that the price of cocaine in Europe had fallen to a record low, fuelling record levels of cocaine use. “Celebrity drug offenders can profoundly influence attitudes, politics, values and behavior towards drug abuse, particularly among young people,” the report warned. The United Nations blamed…
America`s Secret Army
Daniel Craig as James Bond. When Ian Fleming wrote his thrillers, spies lived in an exclusive world. In the US, there’s nearly 1 million. In the cloak and dagger world of intelligence, the assumption fed by countless spy novels and TV dramas is that top-secret security clearance is restricted to an elite few known only…
Whose cover story is true : CIA pays Iran Scientist 5 Millon
– Shahram Amiri, the Iranian nuclear scientist who claimed to have been kidnapped by the U.S. and returned to the Islamic Republic to a hero’s welcome today, was handed more than $5 million by the CIA to provide intelligence on the regime’s atomic program, according to intelligence officials interviewed by The Washington Post. The paper…
The Greek debt crisis simplified and updated and cut to the bone
Greece’s government must cut spending and improve tax revenue in order to greatly reduce or eliminate its need to borrow, reduce the cost of its output (via domestic deflation or leaving the Euro and depreciating a new currency) in order to restore the external balance between its imports and exports, and to reduce the impediments to economic efficiency and productivity growth so that its economy can grow more rapidly. How did it get in such a mess? What role was and is played by its use of the Euro? And what are its options?